"Roller Chain" Rosary

Roller Chain Rosary FARM HOME Miscellaneous Robert Rottinghaus just turned 91 years old and he lives in a nursing home in Cedar Falls Iowa But that hasn’t stopped the veteran FARM SHOW inventor from continuing to innovate He says his Roller Chain Rosary is a great idea for older farmers “It’s designed like a regular rosary but uses chain links instead of beads ” says Rottinghaus “I like it because it’s heavier and doesn’t ball up together like other rosaries do I got the idea one morning when I was praying The idea just came to me so I bought enough chain to make two of them ” He used No 25 stainless steel roller chain It consists of five 10-link sections of chain held together by aluminum rivets Rottinghaus and his son used a small punch to disassemble the roller chain into sections then riveted them back together A crucifix off another rosary is hooked onto a short length of chain which is attached to a small rectangular aluminum center piece “I like that I can roll it up into a circle that lays flat on the table Best of all it reminds me of all the farm equipment I worked on over the years ” says Rottinghaus who farmed and ran a manufacturing company called Clever-Tech Inc Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Robert Rottinghaus Western Nursing Home 5500 S Main St Apt 24 Cedar Falls Iowa 50613 ph 319 404-5663

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